2022 WRC News & Rumours

[Kenneth]

Quicker doesn't mean easier or cheaper

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Quicker doesn't mean easier or cheaper

It does mean easier .

MW also stated the new car is much harder to repair than the old one.

[denkimi]

Hard to believe the new cars would be more difficult to repair than the old.

But building a new chassis might be a lot easier.

[logic]

Hard to believe the new cars would be more difficult to repair than the old.

But building a new chassis might be a lot easier.

if you saw the lay out then you would understand, a delaminated tire could make you super rally so easily

[EstWRC]

An hour long Betsafe interview with Suninen https://youtu.be/roBxnoYEn_Y

At the moment only with Estonian subtitles but I’m quite sure they will add English ones at some point

[Hartusvuori]

An hour long Betsafe interview with Suninen https://youtu.be/roBxnoYEn_Y

At the moment only with Estonian subtitles but I’m quite sure they will add English ones at some point

Good stuff. Thanks for the link. I like these longer Suninen interviews, because he is often honest and to the point, no fillers.

[dimviii]

Good stuff. Thanks for the link. I like these longer Suninen interviews, because he is often honest and to the point, no fillers.

so did he say something we dont know?

[Hartusvuori]

so did he say something we dont know?

I'm only halfway through the interview, but there are for example some details how (bad) it was at M-Sport the last years. Like saving costs from catering.

Also, looking at the future, even if he is testing Hyundai Rally2 and supposed to start with them in WRC2 this year, he does not have contract with Hyundai yet.

[EstWRC]

im also half way through or even less, he did only total 3 test days with the new Ford R5 back in 2019!!! Said that in his opinion it was wrong to go straight to Rally Estonia that year with that R5. This year he has done 6 days alone with the Hyundai R5.

He was supposed to go to Toyota in 2017 but the VW leaving messed it all up and he went to M-sport. It was all good at M-sport until the COVID, after that it was basically money saving project, you could only test if you had the money to pay for Wilson, otherwise not. He was supposed to start Rally Greece with Ford but Malcolm simply didnt have a car because there wasnt enough workforce to prepare the car.

About the new Hyundai test-base, hopes to help them there and says that the roads or one the best around Jämsä and Tänak chose the roads.

He did a simulator tests for M-sport for Rally1 machine but hasnt seen the real machine.

He wasn’t treated nicely in msport last full season year. They couldn’t test and participate on smaller rallies but the team wanted TOP3 results from him. The interviewer then asks if Loeb could have won with the previous generation car Teemu says that it should be clear to all that he could have not.
It was even that bad that they didn’t even have normal breakfasts and meals from the team.

[WRCStan]

Betsafe seem to be pretty good at this job.